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ConnecticutVOL. 16, 0, 4 NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT, OCTOBER 25, 1930

College NewsPRICE FIVE CENTS

STORY OF AUSTINGRADTYPICAL CROSS-

SECTION OF RUSSIANLIFE TODAY

From Interview WithMargaret Austin '34Today when there is so little. really

known about Russi-a and so muchcuriosity regarding actual conditionsthere ht is interesting to hear aooutthe country fr-om one who has beenthere. Margaret Austin '34, whosefather is working on the constructionof the. Fior-d plant in Austtngrad. theIt usstan city named for him, visitedthe site of this tremendous und-ertak-ing the Iacter pas-t of the su mm er, andhas an tnteresttnx story of conditionsthere.

Austingrad is situated a'bout 250miles f'rom Moscow, the nearest cityof any size being Nijui Novgorodwhich is ten. miles distant. The newcity is tocated on the Oka River whichflows in.to the Volga.Austingrad is the, first strictly com-

munistic city in Russia. .A.lrt.houghtbe.specific pur-pose for its being built isthe oonetruotton of a plant tor themanuracture of Ford cars, this ,pur-pose fits in with the ideal of the Rus-sian government for their couutrv-c-general im.prov'ement in che oounsrv asa whole, an aim which is hoped to berealized in about five year's, the ideal ofand the comorete equaliiy otfa:l1 Rus-sians. Austingrad is to be distinctlya city for workers, and it ts planned tohave 65,000 Russians em,p.Joyed there.jjundangs ar,e to be imm'8lnse, largemodern apartment houses having al-ready been hegun 1\;0 ,take care of thehouS'ing conditions. Here the Russianwill live very comfortably with his[am'ily in two rooms-ample space,considering thart in Moscow it is notunusual for three or four famillies toliv-e in one room. The forty Ameri-can'S who are in Austingrad now liveeither in the aparbment or in ·nne ofthe five houses constructed for theiruse. There is a clubhouse for Americanwiv-es who have more opportunity tostudy Russian conditions than do theDlen who are busy "on the job."It i& planned to have Austingrad

complet,ed within one year from De-ce-mber. The material for the workcomes from RuS'Sia., from Germany,and much of the machinery is import-ed from the United States. The firstconcrete road in Russia is n.ow beinghuilt in the new city, an.d with neweran.d quick-er labor methods which ar-esaving actual years in the time of theconstruotion.The Russian people are rather ,poor,

living in small and unkempt quarters.Th:ere are numbers of unemployed peo-ple and the streetS' ar.e filled wit'hworkers who are. on their rest periods.there being one rest day qut of ev-eryfive, and flv·e minutes of 'rest out ofevery working hour. All living condi~lions are under the absolute control Ootthe government, which controls eventh-e dispensing of commodlitties.The future development of the co-m-

munist government depends upon theyoung people of the present, who \villbe train-ed to carryon the work. Inthe future Austingrad, babies wiJ.1betaken from th-eir parents and keptunder the supervision of the gov-ern-ment until the age of six WhM theywill be sent to school, living with theirparents, until the age of sixteen."Parks of cultural rest" are being de-veloped, wh-ere working men can learnand observe exhibitions of variouskinds. Public playgrounds are alsoprovided.Austingrad, the American city in

AN AUSTRIAN GIRL IN ANAMERICAN COLLEGE

By Mathilde Metzgar '34

"It is a delightful and "interesting ex-perience to know an American col legeafter knowing only European schools.'Ther-e as a great dtrrerence betweenthem-in an-e-rn col lege life, in thestudents, in, the way they live andlearn a,nd teach. And it is simply fas-cinating how much and how manyg'o,od thing'S one can learn from thedifference.S"ince I have started in college life,

I have had th'8 nicest evidences ofAmerica.n hospitality and friendshipS"hown to me, an European student.Then the courses began" and I con-sidered there the difference betweenthe Amer1da.n and European schoolt;,'ysiems. An Australian student hasfour years of gr~mmar schoo·l, eightyears of hjgh scho-o'! and then Univer-sity study. There is a daily sc.heduleof eLg.ht hours of dasswork, and thenoutsid-e study-it is much healthierhere.AthletiC"> i'n an American college

claim a much greater part of inteI'e6tand time than in our schools. I con-sider that it brings much s,portsman-ship, and fun for the students, and ag;ood rest frOommental work. AnOothe'I'new thing for me to see is the StudentGov,ernment. In our schoolls the stu-dent does nort have thiS' privilege; theexperienced professors do all the mak-ing of the laws and rules. But I thinkit 'is very wi'Se for the students tothink 1501' themselv'€S and to educatethemselves in seJ.f-government.A very interesting thing to see is the

American woman student in this coun-try where women share aJS much .inarts, business, a.nd sports as m.en do.'The type of girl is: different, in her be-havior and ap'pearance. She has free-dom which makes heT sellf-assurantand older m€ntally, than her ag-e. Theap.pearance of the AmeriCM1 girl isvery attractive; she seems to sp-endmuch care and time in her dress, andin the use of cosmetics, and she seemsto iboe so sophisticate.d. Then there isa qu-eSiion which puzzles me; 'Why listhe American girl 8'0 ha'PPY?'Another example of thoe difference

between the American girl and the(Oontin'ued on page 3, eolumn 1)

Russia, is a typical and a most inter-esting picture ().f life in that countrytoday.

WHO'S WHO AMONGALUMNAE

Ruth Jackson .ts studying for her M.A. at Denver University.Barbara Ward' has a secretar-tat pos-

ition in Bay City, Mlch igari.Hele.n Weil has a positron as secre-

tary in Altoona, Penna.Mae Geseu is teaching secretarial

courses in the high sch-ool at Wap-'Pingel' Falls, New Yo<rk.Gwendolyn Tho:men anld Corustance

Smith are students at Katharine GibbsSchool in NerwYork City.Kathleen HalSl8Yis attending a sec-

retarial schoo,l at Brooklyn, New York.Erna Kanehl is doing secrertaria-l

work at 519 Center Street, South lMan-Clhester, Conn.DOTOthyHarner was marrioo to Olin

A,lvin SaunderS' "On Se,pt,ember 20th.She is now Hving in Yonkers, NewYork..Evelyn Utley is laboratory research

assistant at Co,lum·bia University, NewYork City.Juliet Phillips is -carrying on re-

search work in Labor ProblemB atWashington, D. C.Dorothy Quigley is teaching mathe-

matics and English in the Junior HighSchool at Farm.ington, Connecticut.Eleanor Tyler is a stenographer for

the Nwtional Radio Advertising, Inc.,in New York City.Edith Walter is in New York. doing

social service work· at the Je'Wish So-cial 8eTvice Association.Isabella Sniffen ds tea:ching English

and tY'pewrHing in the Larson Secre-tarial School at New Haven, ConnecU~cut.Bertha Moskovitz is doing Gennan

translation and stenographic work atthe Rossia Insurance Ccmtpany, Hart-f·ord, Connecticut.

Bessie McLean is- High School Li-braTian at Toms River, New Jersey.Virginia Joseph is teaching general

scienc-e and mathematics at NorwichFree Academy.Betty McCusker is working as

a mathematics computator faT en-gineers, East Orange, New Jersey.Mercer Camp is a Section Manager

at Macey's, New York City.

PRESIDENT' BLUNT'SHALLOWE'EN PARTYAt 8:00 in the gym, Saturday

night

EVERYONE INVITED

DR. FREDERICOTHRASHER SPEAKS AT

CONVOCATION"Gang Life in Great

Cities"Dr. F'rederach M. Thrasher, mated

sociologist and author of Tlw Gang, AStudy of 1313 Gangs In Chicago, spokeon Tuesday arternoon, October zi.et.for Convocation on GallO Dife -in th.:Greaz Oities. The lecture h-eld a three-fold interest, as President Blunt an-nounced in her- introduction of thespeak-er: for the people of New Lon-don, for the col lege itself, and for theConnecticut League of Women Voters,a. part of whose program on Child De-linquency this lecture formed.It is impossible, stated Dr. Thrasher,

to separate the boy deltnquency andthe formations of gangs by young boys.from the larger subjects of crame ingener-al. It is fitting, therercre, tolook at the crime wave at such a cityas Chicago, which is typical of a largeindustrial' city with a foreign pop ula-.lion. Dr. Thrash-er pointed out thatIn that city the cr-lrne wave has in-creased during the admtrustratton ofmayors who have carried on reformpr-ograms. There is a Iesset- numberof murders during a corrupt adminis-tration, since conditions are then easierfor the criminal.To find the roots of crime. Dr.

Thrasher "points out the juvenile gangsmade up Dot' yo-ung iboys from 14 to 20year-s' of ag.e. Th-ese bovs have beenatllo wed to go out into the streets fromthe time rihey were from 6 to 8 years61d. From thts results an "tnroemateducation" which is more potent thanthe schoolroom ed'Ucation, an.d whichteaches the chlld~ren four things: in-dependence, a philos'ophy of fatalism,a disrespect for law and authority, anda .technique of law-lbrea.king. It is thechecking .of this informal 'edu'catlonthat is a solUJtion to child delinquencyf.lOd a solution of the crime situation.It is th-e duty of the publ1c to c·heckthis trend, 'Said Dr. Thrasher, by help-Ing the boy before he- has hecomehardened. Cities which have a crimeproblem are those which have a largeforeign po,pulation, yet t·he immjgrantis usually law-wbiding. America. musttake care of the second generation. InPoland <there is no d'elinquency, in Chi-cago there is a high rate of child de-linquency among Poles. The com-munity has been neg!lectfuL Dr.Thrasher beUev·es that th·e situationcan be remed~ed by th-e serious co-operation of national and lo,cal organ-izations of welfare--"Give' the boysomerthing to do."

THE MAIDEN'S PRAYER

Dear Lord" I hate to bother YouWith prayeTS a,nd an;

That's why I haven't asked for muchSince way last Fall.

can shiver through the Winter'And through the Spring

Without a single prayerFor a single thing.

In the hottest. days of summerI come smiling through

But when it COlmesOctoberI a,pp€al to you.

I'll get along t·he whole year throughAs best I can,

But, Lord, \vhen football season starts,Send me a man!

Mrs. Percy Eggleston of New Lon-dan has donated the last five years' is-. sues of House Beautiful for the use oft·he Fine Arts Department.

2 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE NEWS

Free SpeechConnecticut College NewsESTABLISKBD 1916

Published by the students of Connecti-cut College "very Saturday throughoutthe college year- trom October to June,except <luring mtd-vears and vacations.

Entered as second class matter August5. 19J 9, at the Post Office at New Lon-don, Connecticut, under the Act atAugust ~... 1912.

STAFFEDITOR-Dr-CHIEFMilicent Wilcox '31

NEWS EDITOBBethel Dean '31

SENIOR ASSOCfATE EDITORRuth Canty '31

JUNIOR ASSOCIATE EDITORSGertrude Butler '32Hilma McKinstry '3~

REPORTERSHelen McGillicuddy '32Esther Barlow '33Alma Bennett '33Eleanor Lucas '33"Margaret Mills '33

ART EDITOR.Gwendol yn Macfarren '31

MANAGING EDITORLouise Buenzle '31

ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITORSRuth Paul '32msre Nelson '33Helen Peasly '33

Virginia Shaynor '33BtrSINESS 1lIlANAGEB

Mary Innet '31

ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERSAlice Read '33

Virginia Stevenson '33

CIRCULATION MANAGERMary Crider '32

FACULTY ADVISORDr. Gerard E. Jensen

EDITORIAL----------

O"nthe front page 'Ofmost any news-paper that we piCk up today, we findreferenoce ,to or pathetic stories result-ing fro,m the "business sl'ump" and theresulting unemployment pro'blem.'l'housands of people are out of work~charity oOTganlzations are strainedbeyond the>ir ca,paclty-fortunes havetumbled ,down like the famed "'houseof cards" over-night. A \\'in1.er od'want, Sltarvation and suffering is opre-dicted-suffering much greater thanthe best efforts of fore-sighted phllanM

thJ:loJ)Ists and charity relief funds canalleviate. Are we going about ourregular, well'-ordered safe life, a lifethat still includes such thIngs as! fUT

coats and football games-are we en-tireloy apart and unaffected by thiseconomic civics? Indeed we are not-and it is· well thaot some of us, whomay not have come into contact withthe problem realized i<tseffect on cam-pus life.Numbers of girls were unable- to

come to college at all t'his fall becausepart of ,the brunt of the business d'e-pressIon has fallen on the shouldoers o.ftheir parents. Many mOTe of us whoare here are fOl"'cedlto earn some partof our tuition and board if we are tore.main in coll-ege. MisS' Ramsey re-ports that she has more demand faTstu-dent jobS! on campus this fall thanever before, and; many more unfortu-nately than can be taken care of.We are not then a little cloistered

community apart and untouched bycondirtions which upset ot'he worldaround us. We are .instead a part ofthat: world, feeling acutely with it inits present business depression-andbecause of this fact, the unem.rloymentproblem should be not a vague, hazyissue of econo.mics. but a question ofvital interest to every undergrad'uateon campus.

The class of 1930 has given to :theLibrary, as a class gift, two hundreddollars which is being used for thepurchase of books to fill in Incompletesets.

KOINECampaign starts Monday, Oc-

tober 27th. You have one weekin which to order yours. Don'tneglect to order, for you will besure to want one. They'll bebigger and better than ever.

THE COSMOPOLlT ANCAMPUS

'Ve find this extract in a Germanstudent's stor-y of her reactions to theAmerican college educaucnar system."1 think that instead of being sub-

dued by the discipline of this system,the student develops an individualityof her own, which is all the better forhaving- been developed in spitc of thediscipline. It is tmposstbte h-ere foran undergraduate to go 'b lind ly on forrour veara along the wrong 'track, andcome out still bewildered. Instead, heaccustoms himself every day to ceraaantasks, and finally .h e is r-eady for othertasks outside the university or college."

-Trrlllwiry ('ollt'ge ?!lCICiJ.

"Stud v n-ooks with desh-abte lightingnnd the' posstbnttv of reservation o/HEnon-disturbance during work on termpapers and such are wanted! Couldmain class rooms be successfullyn-ansrormed to meet this need?"

-Tilt lrilRon Billboard,Perhaps we could have a collection

of plain and fancy screens put in thelectur-e room in Fanning to providestu dy nooks for our nervous class-mates!

"It is an axiom of courtesy that onemal'-es·other peo,ple feel that they 8.lreequals, and I..tis strange that we shouldeve!' feel that our superior ahility tou·pprec.iate should give us a right tomake other people uncomfo'rtable,. Itmay ·be an effort without great rewardin itself to Italk to a comparativeJy un-interesting person when college is fullof clever ones. But the reward lies ina <liffer-ent field from mental stimula*tion. 'I'he.re is a peculiar pleasure inputtIng other po6ople at ease that 1snot at all <lisagr.eeaole. Ami then younever can telJ wh'en the- stupid-l.ooklngperson will turn out to be a Junio:r P,hiBete-and utterly -charming."

-VassM Miscclla,ny NC'lc.q.

HAT1.FM\VAY DO\VN THE STAUl.s

Halfway down the stairsIs the stairWhere I sit.I go there everyDay to getMath onIt.I gaze out the windowAnd down on the quadAnd think about tree-Buds,Calculus.God.There ate such a lotOf thoughtsI take in handAnd grapple,Halfway upAnd halfway downWhen I should beAt chapel.-{'assar ill iSGcllallY ]\Telcs.

College Dramatics Andthe Professional Stage'l'he Fall Play and the French Play

are borth sufficient incentives (or us toI'ead with interest an article in TheLittle 'Theatre Monthly by Mr. George F.Reynolds. The title M the article isColfcgc lJramotics and ",he ProfessiollalStage. "Should the work in collegeBnd unive.rsity dramatics have for itsaim the preparation of actors on theprof-essional stage?" "Do the ;idealprofessional theatre and the i-d.pa..lcol-lege theatre differ in aims, methodsand training 50 much as not to preparecne well for the other?" The_re is ab"trong temptation to say yes to thefirst question. Regarding the second,Mr. Reynolds believes that "the pro-fessional theatre and the collegetheatre are of necessi.ty separate insti-tutions, and that training for one can-not well be done .in the other."If in training .sPeCial students for

the professional stage, we pick playswith tileir needs alone in mind, theservice to the general stud-e-nt bodY. islost. "The education of students intoquick adjustment to different kindsand circumstances of plays, is one ofthe main services we can render theprofessional stage.The college theatre should do all

that it can toward promoting localI drama. The aims of the theatre should

(The Editors of the Ncws do not holdtnemse.ves responsible for the opinionsexpressed. in this column. In order tomsure the validity of this column as anorguu [or the expression of honestonuuon. the editor must know the namesat ccrurtuutors.)Dear Editor:At the C. quizz last Tuesday night,

the tables were turned on the gopho-mores. The whole affair instead ofbeIng an ordeal for the Freshman, wastaken by rtbem as a lark invented fortheir benefit. About ten of the SeniorClass, whose presence ell masse mighthave given an air of dignity and seri-ousness to the quiz, but a handful ofJunior sisters and only thirty or fortySophomores were present. Perhapsthis lack of SUPPOJ:ltand evidence ofinterest shown by the upper classes ac-counts .pa r-t.ly for the ignorance of the"C" and the flippancy of their answers.One expects to find uncertainty and

nervousness at a quiz of this kind. Onthe ccncrarv, however, the F.reS'hm_'8nseemed proud of dh e deficient answers,and enjoyed themselves immensely.This added co the consternation ofthert- questtonners who apparently haddifficulty in .thfn klng' of complicatedand original questions enough to com-billt this disturb1'Ilg attitude.'1'he unusual and halting answers

might have C<'l.lled forth laughter andsympathy had they been given inhonest and authentic b-ewllderment.But humor is never provoked by anat!titucle of disrespect and assum-e:dbravado. As is usual every year, itwas found that campus boundaries stillproved unfathoma.ble. 'fhe Birchesstrangely, enough, proved to be agroup Qof birch trecs. Quwrry Pond wasI'l'oclaimed as th€. ultimate goal ofe\'ery &tudent of Zoo,logy!Correct or even cleverly oroiginal

answers proved to be the exceptionsinst-ead of <thegene;ral rule. '1'h05e whotook the quiz sedously, as a part ofinitiation and answered the questionsas they should be answered, are ..naturally, <tobe commended.We wond.er if <the. quiz was nart

finally con.clud>ed with a f.eeling offutility and bafflement, and was not,iT!the end, an anticlimaz to iniation.What can be done about it next year?

Dear EditOT:At last the gross injusti'ce 'of the

night leave system has be-en exposed!The college has now discovered that aboard of demon Idiots contrived tomake a night leave syStem whereby aperson who has taken all her nig,h:t.son account o<fillness, cannot have extranights without spacial permission firomthe Dean. And the Dean is a ferociousunapproalcha,ble person who would notgrant -extra nights for anything lessthan a major operati-on.Naw let us look at the situation from

another point of view. A person whohas .been ill and used all ,her nights,needs a few d'aY'Sof peace and quiet inorde-r to make. up her work a.nd re-build her health. She can't do allthat in no time: How would she havetime to spend many nights away fromcolLege, especially in the part of thesemester tmmediato6ly following herillness?In order to ge-t an extra night or two

later on, whether for something im-portant or :merely for a chanigle o<fclimate, a girl shQUld talk the matterover with :the Dean. Evidently thegirl cited as an eXaJmJ)lein the attackon the unjust night leaVie system hadnot even approached this ferocIous

be artistic and it should not bestan-dardiz.ed. College drama shouldbe at once competently done and freshand spontaneous.Mr. Reynol{1s .concludes wUh hiS'

opinion -of the job of college dra-matics: "to train the general studentinto becoming a more in-telIigent,open-mi.nd-ed auditor; the college ac-tor, so that he may develop while h-e iswith us, in every useful' way "whichplays make- possible, and so that afterho6has left us he may continue to .havea real source of "pleasure, certainly, in-hearing plays and perhaps in acting inthem in his own community t.heatre;and the college and high school di-rector so that wtth skill and vision he,in his turn, may strive to attain withhis own students the :rich values ofeducational dramaticS'."

Faculty Have FirstEntertainment

Miss Margaret Deneke, Choir Masterof Lady Margaret's Hall, Oxfor-d, Eng-lan-d, gave a lecture-'recital on "Th-eLife and Works of Frederic Cho ptn"at the annual faculty musical heldSaturday nioght, October 18th, atKnowlton Hall. 'Phe recital was opento the members of the faculty of th-ecollege and to friends of the college,and townspeople. Miss Deneke is theleading pianist of England and one ofthe greatest pianists in the world to-day. She goes from college to collegegiving recitals similar to the one shegave here, in 'order to raise money forher own college. Arter 'the speech ofwelcome by Dr. Blunt, Miss Denekegave a ,brIef ntstorv of tile life of thegr-eat Polish-Fr-ench pianist of tue t sthcentur-y, ntustrattng what she said bypieces from Chopin. She said thatChopin expresses the mood of thewrtters who have broken away fromthe old classical schoot. Her first S!€,-

teet.Ions were unique folk lore lyrics orPoland. Next she told the btogr-aphyor the composer from 1837-1838, whenhe" with a companion ware turned outof t.hef r lodgings by the peasants, andforced .to tak e lodgbng in a desertedmonastery. Here th€l men had to UTI1-

·<lergoma.ny hardships, w,hich a.re ex-pressed in the melancholy workswritten by Cholpin at that Hme.Chopin is noted (,or his curious cap.8JCi-rty to pass ·with great spe:-edfjrom 'mer-riment to melam'chO'ly ·in his music.Other 'Pieces played ,by MLss Denekewere the "Mi'nut;e Waltz," tho(!,"Pol-anaise," and the "Mazurka," alL wellknown 10 €oven tholSe but ldttle ac-Quainted with Chopin'S works. Thebeauty and greatn-es1s of Chopin'sworks we·re well illiustrated by theplaying of rMiss Deneke, who playedthem as: the great composer wouldhave wished them to be played-aso'nly a great musician c01uldplay them.This musicale was the annual one

given ·by the coJl.e,ge faculty. The-commiUee ,in charg'e of the faCUlty en-tertainments is headed by Dr. Doyleand consists M Mis's Oalkes, MissBarnard, Mi&'3Thayel', and Mr. Kinsey.This recital was but ,O'neof the first. tobe given this y>ear by the faJCulty. Theprogram committee has already cnm-pl-eted plans up to ChriiStmas time. Th-eremainder of the faculity entertain-ments will, howevel!', be open only tom-embers of the faculty of the college,and will be held in Fanning Hall OJ1the fourth floor. There will', as' hasbeen the custnm in forme,r years, 'beseveral f&Culty teas' and this year aChristmas Party.

Dean. I know of several girls in sim,..ilar cases who hav,e gone to the Deanand found her very ler;ie-nt and braad'-minded. It is thIs that keeps the sit-uation from being unjust.The Dean l\:nows fai'J:Ilywell about

the girl's health an<d academic stand-ing. If she feels that an absencewould be <deleterious to neither shemay grant extra nights. If she fee-lsthat a week-end would be too strenu-ous, sh-e is doing the girl a favor bykeeping her h-ere. If she knows thegirl's grad-es are not so go,od and 'WoQiUldbe made worSle-by extra ni;ghts., she ismerely pr-esenting .her with a chan-ceto get more nights next semester. Inany case I ,think the Dean may betrusted to be fai'r-.mindled and to uS"egood judgment. -

Dear Editor:"v"e would like to correct an er-

roneous statement 'Illade in last week'sNews: Th8.lt the !'W-elles.J.ey Seniorswill no longer drive their cars a.roundcampus." The Wellesley Golicge NelOs ofSeptem.ber 25th announces cars can 'beha'd only after Spring VacaUon. A\Velll-esleySenior resented the misquot-ing and also the "invention" of thereference to Connecticut which was.not printed in the The Wcllesley College"News.Editor's Note-The !'atter was an er-

ror in proofreading-the ".invention"(Continued on page -1, column 1) ,

FALL PLAYTO BE

"THE A.ilfAZONS"By Sir Arthur W. PinJ€Jl'oCoach, Ann Heflpern '29

CONNECTICUT COLLEGE NEWS

THIDn001\ :mUL["YEARS OF GRACE"By )largaret Ayet- Bar-nesHoughton )'1ifflin Co., $2.50

Is it hard for you to realize thatgrandmothers were once young, thattheir wrinkled cheeks were fresh andsmooth, and that th ei r- faded eyes werebright and sparkling"? Read MargaretAver Barnes' Yew's of Grace and liveJane Ward's life with her. The marchof the past rew g-eneration'S is de ppctedcharmingly, That the change in ideasand modes of living has 'been compara-tively sudden is clearly brought out.Jane Ward was born t nto a still con-vention-bound atmosphere, but shewas spurred on by an undercurrent ofrestlessness which placed her a bitahead or her family. Her mo ther wasshocked when Jan-a wanted to marryAndre, the Fr-ench lad, amazed whenshe went to Bryn Mawr, and aghastwhen Ag-nes set out to make her ownliving. All in all, she did not cormp re-hend her children's generation. Sowith Jane when her children did S'Ur~

pTising things. She could not under-stand her daoughte.r's ,being willing todivorce her husband' f,or another man,and yet Jane had considered h-erselfmodern. The march of the genera-tions was in (]ui!ck-ste'p time and leftthe hesitant far behind. It is a pleas-ant story well wriMen an.d worked out.Margaret Ay,er Barnes' characters

are nort mere llup:pets manipulated bystrings, but are real people withhuman inte:relS'ts and alms. Plain lit-He Jane, lovable Andre, flirtatiousMtH'iel, handsome young Stephen, red,-haired Fllora., im,petuous Jimmy, andquiet Agnes will 'alll1J.ewoven into thetapestry of YOUI' m,emory. You willthrill with Jane in her youthful affairwith AndTe, and with her YO'uwill feelyour worlds tumbling when herpar,ents red'uee to let her marry him.With .Tanc you will go to college andhave your ideals all disturbed. Withhe'r you will live a happy Ufe withSt~phen, ruffled by the ,affair withJimmy. You will get her grandmoth.-erly aspect on life, and with her youwill be slightly dazed art the changes.Margaret AyeI' Barnes has brought

out th-e tTem-endouS chang,es in the pastfoe'\vdecades very subtly and effectivelyby her use of contrasts. The story ischarming and pleasant, yet at the sametime vigo,rous enough to start an en-tirely new train of thoug,ht in yourmind.

Lois Taylor '31, In M.Duhamel's Book

M. George Duhamel, who lecturedwt Connecticut two yearS' ago last yea:r,published a book which was basedupon his travels in America, Srencs dela Vie Flt/ure, which has become a hestseH-eT in Paris. In it he devO'ted a.whole page to an account of a conver-sation which he had with Lois Taylor'31, a;t a tea here at the time of thelecture. In remarking ahout thiS' con-versation 1\'1. Duhamel praised MissTaylor's excellent French.

A-V AUS'IRIAX GIRL IN AN ETC.(Oolleluded from page 1, column. 2)

European girl :is in the answer 10 thequestion, 'HO'Ware you?' The Amer-ican girl is happy and optimistic, andlI'eplies in her little, polite way, 'Dh, Iam fine.' The Europeam is pessimisticand says, 'Thank you, not too bad,'or, 'Well, I do exist.'An outstanding feature of ,the AJmer~

iean girl is in ·h.errpolitical point ofview; she is democratic. She has ob-literated by means of cOmTadeship, thedistinction between classes, races, andcreeds. The dernoeratlc and friendlyattitude is very admirable; they d'o nothate or show disrespect to any coun-try."

.ENT.~ ENT

(Please Note: Students are remindedtuat rules which appear in the New,are not final until posted on StudentGovernment BulIetin Board. They mere-ly indicate what is being discussed byyour repreeentattves.)

"It seems- that there is a growinglack of apprectatton of Student Gov-ernment among our students.If we would onty stop for a moment

now an-d then to think what it allmeans, we might be a little -more care-ful to obey the few rules which wehave, and to -show by our attitudetoward them that we are worthy 01the confidence which our Presidentand faculty have placed in us bygranting us the privilege of' governingourselves.Many colleges have systems which

go by the name of Student Govern-ment, but in very few cases are t.hestudents given the power which isgfven us to make and maintain the'taws. Practically all other colleg-eshave some form of proctorshl,p carried;on by the girls themselves, or by mem-bel'S of the faculty. Here, although alllaws rn ust be passed' upon by the fac-ulty committee before they are put in-Loeffect, the students tnemsetves havethe responsibility or for-m u Ia.tlng andmaintaining the r-ules.Responsibility for the lmainwning

of the rule'S is not in the hands of ,theStudent Government officers alone, forour -system does awa,y with many 'in-conveniences brought about rtly proctorsystems, in that the girls' are not con-ti'nually watched by a per&Olnwho isthere to check up on aU h"er comingsand goings. W-e do not have one·proctOI· to over!:YE.'ethe activiUes of anum·ber of girlS', but our resp011si1bilityis that much great,e.r, because 'each girlmust act as her own proctor.""Ve are not school children who

musrt be continually watched andguid·ed, because they do not know whatthey should .(1-0 and should not do. W-eare at an age w.here woe are abl'e tojudge for ourselves. The authoritieshave recognized this fa.ct and havegranted us th'e privilege of gov-e.rninguurselve'S. What is more, they havesanction-ed many 011'the steps whichthe students have taken to gain great·e1' pl'iviI-eges than thoS'e of an·y othergirl'S college, because they want'ed togive us th-e o,pportunlty to live ourlives with the least ,possible restriction.They have done th~s because lh.ey feltthat we were sufficiently l'eSlJonsible totrust with such lIbe'rty. The few ruleswhich do remain are those which arenecessary to our community, for thesafety and best interests of the stu-dent.Each individual should feel' it her

roopon'Sibility to keep "within thelaw," so to speak; for anyone who vio·lates the ·honor code is--,in the firstplace--being unt,rue to herself; ehe- i&also harming the community by notuphoJding the highest ideals for whichit stands; and she is showing that sheis not worthy of the trust whioh hasheen plaoed in her by those who havegranted her the privilege of being herown guide and proctor because theyconsidered her capalbl-e.Students -do not see;m to realize that

this is their own Student Government.Each one of us has the privilege ofmaking suggoestions to be consideredby t,he bodies which the S'tud-ents haveelect-e-d to discuss the problems andn-eeds of the student bO<i¥, Thereshould be the t:eeling that we are allin contact with Stuilent Governm-e.nt,for at our house meetings we have anopportunity to hold discussions on anymatters about which \V"€- have ques-tions 0,1'suggest'ions, The house pres·ident there is able to ca.I"lY the sug-gestions 10 the House of Representa-tives and so the Idea of a girl can hecarried through all the Student Gov-ernment bodies, and if it is a good one,it will undouMedly be acted upon.Few QIf us realize that we really dohave the opportunity to help makerules, just as we do not ,realize our re-sponsibility in upholding them,If we all do our best to uphold our(Oont'inued on page 1-, column 1)

FRESHMEN BURY THEPAST

Mrs. Mead Speaks OnWorld Peace

"whatsoever a man sowetb, thatshall he reap; and whatsoever a natlonsoweth that shall It reap,"Mrs. Lucia. Ames MEade opened her

vesper talk Sunday, October 19th, withthese words. She pointed out to usdemonstratively and statistically theloss political, financial, mental, andmoral caused by the world wa'r. Lit-tle do the people of today realize whata hole fI~-one billion dollars (theactual Expense incurred 'by the UnitedStates in the last war) has made in theworld's wealth, 'I'he depr-ession todayis world-wide. Austrana is nerurlybankrupt, This COIInes from variouscauses and Mrs. Meade ventured tosay that even "unto the third androurati generations" would we pay thepenalty of the war.She told us that the United States'

now pays more than any ot.h er nationfor its defense even though it has noreason to reee- destruction. We havenot the slightest danger- of ag gresston,because no power, or combination ofPO/WEI'Sis a menace to our security.Do we, therefore, &till wish to continuethe obselete eneth od of settling dis-putes by explosives?It is now a race between education

and ca.larmpty. We haven't yet l-earnedwhat is the education that we need.The war was creaced by universitygraduates, highly trained tech ntctanswho study the best means of wagingwar. What we need is clear thfn'k irig-,sound 1000iCand true ridding of ourminds of the common fallacies whichdelude in-telligent peO'ple. It is theserespectable university graduates thatpa'rtidpate in war and do not attemptany ~pecifie ,means of settlement. Waris a horrible injustice, not because menar,e killed, forr we all must die., but b-e-cau&e it is the inn'ocenlt who must paythe penalty.Mrs. Mead then appealed, to us" the

future mothers, t-eachersand guardiansof the cOtmfnggenerations, not to min-imjze war, but to show us how lm-portant is our aid, She stated thaA only]00.0'00 of our men have been killed inwars since 1812; many more childre.ndie fro.m p'reventable diseases nnd ac-cidents. Tbus, it is <lur function todeal with such problems and to de.fendour country from financial ruin ando-b literatf,on.The notion that all government de-

pends on force is fa,lse;; ninety-,fIve percent de-pends o,n the good will> and sup-rort of <lUI' peo'llle. The governmentof nations should be- o:rganiz-ed as isthat of a city. Cities and states don'twage wSJr. Disputes are no.t war; weshall always have disputes; but theyshould be settled rationally, not ab-nornnally. When man attempts towipe out his species, he is d.oing an. ab-norma,] thing. Our busin-ess is ,to o,pe.nthe eyes of the blind and the ears ofthe deaf, It doesn't take a genius,only a vision of terrible danger whichmay come if we ar-e stupid and mls1n,-formed as w-ere people in 1914. Justas slavery was ended, so if educatedwomen -ofAmerica wake up, and if theChristian Chureh does itg duty weshould be able to Instill in the mindsof OUTpeo'])J'e th.e knowledge of set-tling p.eace rationally, Lt is a matterof "patriotism, l'eligion and comm.onsense,

To the low, walling strains of a vio-lin playing a mournful dirge a proces-sion of black-robed, dolorous-visagedFreshmen marched slowly down theaisle of the appointed meeting place.Sadly they bore the awful symbols ofthe bondage of the Class of 1934.Gravely they carried the well-stuffedstockings, the plump bloomers, thelimp looking black and red umbrellas;,the well known pink caps, and tile egg,Solemnly th-ey marched to the stregewhere the dark curtains opened to re-veal an eerfely lit scene of woe. Therein dignified state, in lonely solitude.flanked by sombre-colored autumnleaves (poetic sign of death), stood theblack and direful cofftn. A'bout it thesorrowing grorup formed a semi-circle.The departed rags were carefully be-stowed in their last resting place. Thetall and spectral leader dropped themone by one. with respectrut and fittingeuioetes-c-drooped the holy stockings,the faded un'breua (whom the all-considering Conneoticut clouds hadspared from earthly use), th-e long andfaithful bloomer-s, the egg (which hadhatched a new feeling in the Fresh-men), and to cap the climax, .the lj'tt le'Scarlet signs of the infamy and d'egTa'-dation of the Class of 1934. Then withall due pomp and ceremony the funer-al oration was read. "The Freshmenhave come to bury these remains, notto -oreserve them. The evil thatfreshmen do lives after them; the goodis tntei-red with thetr bones. So let itbe with the sophomores." Shades ofAntony! For thoug,h the sophomorescalled the F'reshmoen obnoxious, theycouLd not be- wrong, for the sOlpho-mores w-ere an honorable cla'SS (Boo!Baa!) A S'olemn pray-e:r was said oOverthe hateful remains (gon-e but not for-gotten) as the gathering me-ditated ins-ilence on the inhumanity and cold-heartedness O'f the brutal sophomores,M the last silent Amen was utter.oo astartlingly unfuneral-like yell rosefrom the dark-garbed mourners"Hurrah for the sophomoroo!"And as taps were 'Sounded from out thecold night th.e crowd left the place otgrie.f, not in sorrow and with tears, butin joy and wilth S"miloes.This clewer demonstration was made

by the Freah'JT},en who werre on theBlack LiSt after Freshmen Initiation.The "funeral" was held in the gym-IlMium. Friday, October 17, 1930, ateeven o'clock. The enti're performanceshow-ed not only clever ingenuity andwell-·,planned PTeparatlon" but aolso as:.plendid spirit.

concealme.nt is ,merely incidental andhas been exaggerated by many writers.

As a part of the- world-wide cele-bration of the birth of Vergil twothousand years ago, the Library hasplaced on exhibition its Vergilianawhich contains ,a number o{)f'rare andinteresting it-ems. The samuel Palmer!translation ('f the Eclogues of Vergil isW(}T'thyof special mention among otherraTe editions. It is beautifully Hlus-tr8!ted by Mr, Palmer in a large paperfolio. This edition of the Eclogues isa g,em. from the .publishing point of,iew. The exhibit Includes bookS' re-la.ting to Vergil, magazine a.rticles,pamph lets and the like. The Library Jsinde.bted to v8!rious donors for differ-ent items in this exhibi.t, and to DeanNye for material and suggestions. Allare cordially invited. t{) visit the exhibitwhich ,may be seen for about twoweeks more.

Glee Club for 1930-1931

Eleanor Allman, Louise Armstr'!)ng,Isobel Balrtlett, Winifred Beach, Doro~thy Birdsey. Serena Blodget·t, MarionBogart, Katharine Buckley-, BettyCarver. Ruth Caswell, Natalie Clunet,J-e-'an Dunhwm, Anne Ebsen, TrellisEpstein, Ruth F'e,rree, MargueriteFishburne, Helen Frey, J,oan Garver,Dorothy Gould, Ruth Griswold, AliceHang-en, Iso·bel Heins, Caroline Hincks,DorQlt.hy J·ohnson, Martha Johnson,'fer-esa Keating~ Erica Langhammer,Elino.r Laughlin, Margaret J..Jeland,Jean MacKenzie, Gwen MarfaJrren,Alice McConnon, Jean Mar&hall, MaryMead, Betty Miller, Margaret Mul-holland, Barbara Mundy, ElizabethMyel', Jean Neal, Marion Nichols,Betty Pypel', Margaret Rathbone, Car-oline Rice, Roberla RQlbbins, LouisaRhod-es, Camille Sams, Marjorie Scrib-nN. Edith Schneider, Kay Shultis.Catharine Steelle, Virginia Stevenson,Abbie Usher, Alice Van Deusen. MerciaMay.There is a possibility of accepting

several more SO,pranos, Apply to Mr.Weld in Room No{).12, Branford Base-ment. .

BOOK NEWS

I'll a recent number of Bird Lore, amagazine devoted to the study a.ndprotection of birds, there is an articlewritten !by Dr. Herbert Z. Kip. Thetitle of the article is "Concealment asa Fador in Nestbuilding".and it ,bringsout and proves the point that struc-tural SUitability is the main considera-tion in the building of a nest and that

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4 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE NEWS

Now that the Freshmen have buried"the ghastly garb," may we say athankful and heart-felt farewell to thepink caps. The flaming pink caps thatthey wore on then- heads.

The telephone booth in Fanning is agrand addition. but then who will everhave a nick le ?

With French Play, Fall Play andPter rotts ).,light Club all open ing soon,it looks like a good season for thesho-w business.

The tennis courts, out in the forbid-den regions of the reservoir must beabout completed. It will be pleasantto see tunic clad figures wenrding theirway to a district usually reached onlyat Mascot time.

With all our inner knowledge ofgangs we expect .the .college to wakeup some morning with a bomb underits bed.

C Quiz:-aU a question of Stu. G.oaths, alma maters and the lirke. Who

is a Freshman to presume to knowsuch things?

FREE SPEECH(Ooneluded from page 2, eolU1n'n 4)

Do comment, should have been placedunder the acknowledgment, WellesleyOol/ege News ..

S'l'UDENr.r GOVERNlUEKT(Concluded from page 3, column 2)

honor system, then we will be al-lowed to keep it, and continue to en-joy che many privileges which it givesus. It is only with the' cooperationof every Indtvtdua.l .th at we may retainOUT Honor System, and be abte to say,"Conneottcut Cortege has an Hence-System that works."

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ttemerruber to subscribe to the Con-cert Series and bh en consider the privi-lege of special trolleys.

C. C, O..C. is certainly up and com-ing. A hay ride sounds great to thoseof us who are .men t.ioned in the societycolumn as "spending the week-end oncampus."

We hope no one mutilates the chairsin the Ll'be. H would be ghastly tohave to get them from the ReserveDesk. APparently the college aooundsin criminals.

j-tanowe'en party; where gather thefamous an-d the infamous.

Can you wait to play on the indoorgolf course? Particularly with poor"collitch" girls having to pay threedollars on Saturday for the genuinething.We crave action. Won't some one

please do something silly for the sakeof the column?

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